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Layoffs have hit
about 12 newsrooms owned by Gannett since yesterday, the same day Verizon Media announced up to 800 jobs — or 7% of its employees — will be cut across the company, which includes Yahoo,
AOL and HuffPost.

Both legacy and digital pure-play media companies are
struggling to find a sustainable business model in a tough environment, competing for print and digital ad dollars, as well as eyeballs against platform giants Google and Facebook.

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Verizon Media, previously known as Oath, is undergoing cuts after the company took a $4.6 billion write-down at the end of last year. (Verizon also cut about 2,100 people from the company in
2017.)

HuffPost began laying off employees Thursday morning. An estimated 750 Verizon Media employees are expected to lose their jobs. HuffPost's Opinion section will
also be axed.

HuffPost unionized
with the Writers Guild of America, East two years ago. A union spokesman said at least 15 members had lost their jobs. Some nonunion employees were expected to be cut as well, the site
reported.

It's unknown how many Verizon media jobs will be cut.

So far, about 30 jobs were lost at Gannett, across at least 12 local newspapers, according
to Poynter.

No final tally on how many
journalists and news outlets will be impacted.

Many let go were veteran journalists who had been at their newspapers for decades. On Twitter, a number of those journalists
expressed shock to be let go suddenly after years devoted to the publications.

Gannett, which owns USA Today and 109 other local media companies, received a takeover bid just
a few weeks ago from Digital First Media.

Digital First, which owns the Denver Post and Boston Herald, among others, offered to buy Gannett for $1.36 billion.